MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Rockhopper shares soar as talks for a partner in Falklands’ oil operation advance
Rockhopper Exploration Plc climbed to an 11-month high in London trading after a report that Cairn Energy Plc is in talks with the only company to have made a potentially commercial oil find near the Falkland Islands. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesA very significant silence from Mercopress is much more than telling. It claims to cover the whole ofnthenSouth Atlantic and even reports irrelevant news fromthe islands it insists not to call as all ofnthenregion does: Malvinas. However, it purposedly omitsnto mention the article by Simon Winchester recently published in The Times of the UK. Interesting ommission as the article calls the UK to put and end to this colonial situation, sit down and negotiate a “civilised solution” recognising Argentine sovereignty and the need to take into account and guarantee the islanders' interests and way of life. That is to say UN and hence Argentina's position. This article accompanied an opinion column by Argentine FM on this issue. Mercopress is regrettably too biased to speak mthe truth.
Jan 17th, 2012 - 12:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Rockhopper is just a shanty company.
Jan 17th, 2012 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ed, a shanty company, have their moved their HQ to the Argentine capital city?
Jan 17th, 2012 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Great news for the hydro-carbon industry in the Falklands!!!
Jan 17th, 2012 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well done to all!
Long Live the Falklands.
“ it purposedly omitsnto mention the article by Simon Winchester ”
Jan 17th, 2012 - 05:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's an opinion piece. Not news. Get over it.
“regrettably too biased to speak mthe truth.”
An opinion, by definition is not fact.
@ I see Winchester used to write for the Guardian. Explains everything. The Guardina is full of gay plonkers. And thus feel a kinship with argies.
Jan 17th, 2012 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And thus feel a kinship with argies
Jan 17th, 2012 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Simon the yank was a guest of the argies
Winchester was jailed for three months on trumped up charges of spying with two other British journalists from the beginning and during the entire duration of the Falklands War. They were detained at the bottom of Argentina in a town called Ushuaia which happened to have the world’s southernmost prison. While the war raged on, Winchester kept a diary of the day-to-day goings on in the prison and tried to keep up with the news of the war raging to the east with a shortwave radio. He recounts the ups and downs of the indefinite detention while detailing the efforts of his fellow journalists worldwide who tirelessly worked for their freedom.
http://simonwinchester.com/2009/12/prison-diary-argentina-a-falklands-story/
The fact is Simon Winchester states today what the solution should be in exactly the same terms as Argentina and the UN: negotiation, dialogue, respect for islanders' interests and way of life and recognition of Argentine sovereignty. It may hurt but it is very sensible as it come to terms with reality, international law and justice. He may write for The Guardian too, so what? This last piece was published in Conservative The Times. It's no use crying over spilt milk.
Jan 18th, 2012 - 01:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Take it to the ICJ and you can have your “negotiation”.
Jan 19th, 2012 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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